Launching & Custom Authentication

[Eric J. Hoffman]

Hello from a few new converts to FarCry...got an update at CfObjective()
about all the news here...

We are going to be launching out two national sites associated with the
gov and hoping it helps provide great exposure for this platform. We
have come over from Commonspot which ran the other sites to the loud
booing from those tasked to keep it up to date. So here we are.

I have one question: looking around....is there a prebuilt way to have
Farcry look to an existing users table....or has one been rolled to work
in it and we don't see it?

Any friendly pointers would be appreciated. We have begun the
development and hope to release these new sites by July...and will post
them here and some lessons learned if it helps this growing community!

Thanks again, and looking forward to being a member of the group!

Eric
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[Williams, Matt]

Yes. I have a doc which I can post this evening detailing this (though it should probably make it's way to the Wiki). Basically, you need to create views that match the dmUser, dmGroup, and dmUsertoGroup tables on the database you wish to use. Next, you create a new client data store for Farcry to see, and off you go.

Matthew Williams

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[McGraw_WV]

I wrote some custom Authentication code that was very simple, Im sur
enot a very stanrd way of doing things, but basically just alter some
code to by pass typical authentication and check against my custom one,
then pasing back success.

The trick behind this method is you still had to ADD the user in
farcry, simply authentication was handled by the other system. So we
still controlled all permissions and groups related to farcry in
farcry, only basically used the password for authentication.

[Williams, Matt]

Here’s a PDF that I created outlining setting this up.

 

Matthew Williams

 

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[Williams, Matt]

And now it’s in the Wiki at http://docs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/display/FCDEV30/External+Authentication.

[mod...@gmail.com]

Williams, Matt wrote:
> And now it's in the Wiki at
> http://docs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/display/FCDEV30/External+Authe
> ntication.

Fantastic stuff!

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

[Andrew Mercer]

does any one know if a table/view call dmProfile would be used by farcry in the same manner?

[Andrew Mercer]

I have tweaked dmProfile.getProfile() so it will look for the user profile in an external client data source - see attached [farcry_core\packages\types\_dmProfile\getProfile.cfm].

Like the work that Matt has done, you can either create a view or table called dmProfile in your external database with columns that match the Farcry dmprofile columns.

You can add extra fields if you like - it just copies each field into a struct.
Not too sure, but you could probably loose a few fields with out causing any issues.

[Andrew Mercer]

please disregard previous attachment - I don't know how that one even worked :-|

new version attached. [farcry_core\packages\types\_dmProfile\getProfile.cfm]